Office of Health Disparities Reduction Website

Thursday, May 31, 2012

The 18th National Health Equity
Research Webcast (formerly known as the Annual Summer Public Health Research
Videoconference on Minority Health) is next week, with sought-after presenters
and a distinguished moderator.

When? Tuesday,
June 5, 2012, 1:30-4:00pm EDT

Where? Webcast or Tate-Turner-Kuralt building auditorium

Topic: "Social
Determinants of Health Disparities: Moving the Nation to Care about Social
Justice"

Featuring:

·Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Division of Epidemiologic and Analytic Methods for
Population Health(p), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

·Moderator:Cedric
M. Bright, M.D., F.A.C.P.,
Director, Office of Special Programs and Assistant Dean for Admissions, UNC
School of Medicine and 112th President, National Medical Association

This free, interactive session will be broadcast
with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of
Social Work and can be viewed over the Internet (webcast). Questions will be
taken from broadcast participants by email and toll-free telephone.

The 18th National Health Equity Research Webcast is presented by the
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Health Project and UNC
Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, in association with the UNC American
Indian Center and Norfolk State University Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social
Work, a
partner in the Commonwealth Public Health Training Center. Major cosponsors to
date include the UNC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Please
consider becoming a cosponsor or providing an endorsement!

More
details can be found below, along with a link to register. The cost
is free, but registration is required. You will need to register for each
webinar separately and will then receive a confirmation email containing
information about accessing the webinar. Look for additional webinars in
the future. We hope you and your colleagues will join us. Feel free to
share this webinar information with other public health partners and
colleagues.

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Webinar - Creating
a Culture of Quality

What
does it mean to have a quality culture in public health? How can we cultivate quality?
Cindan Gizzi from the Tacoma-Pierce County (WA) Health Department will define
“quality culture,” outline the steps her department took around performance
improvement, and will share the lessons they learned along the way. Ms.
Gizzi is a member of NACCHO’s Quality Improvement Leaders, serves on the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation’s Expert Panel for the Quality Improvement in Public
Health Practice Exchange and leads the Public Health Performance Management
Center for Excellence at Tacoma-Pierce.

One
of the key principles in quality improvement is understanding the voice of your
customer. In this session Steve Avery, long-time QI consultant, will
cover how to collect customer and stakeholder satisfaction data and how it can
be used to improve performance. Mr. Avery is the Executive Vice-President
of Business Process Improvement with Promontory Management Group (PMG). He
is a master black belt in Lean Six Sigma with extensive experience working with
state government agencies.

Webinar
- Programs that Work: How to Find Evidence-based Programs and Make Them Work
For You

Debbie
Pfeiffer from the Cancer Prevention Research Network will present on the
importance of using evidence-based strategies and discuss the principles behind
identifying appropriate strategies and adapting them to fit the needs of the
target population.

If
you have any questions about these webinars or the Performance Improvement Boot
Camp, please contact Laverne Snow at lavernesnow@utah.gov or Anna Dillingham
at adillingham@ualhd.org. We hope you
can join us! Feel free to share this webinar
information with other public health partners and colleagues.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

The
American Diabetes Association needs your help with the Tour de Cure, our annual
Cycling Event, on June 9, 2012. This one-day event raises funds to support the
American Diabetes Association’s efforts to find a cure for this deadly disease,
in addition to supporting diabetes education and advocacy for both adults and
children.

We are
expecting 1,600 riders this year and will need the support of about 175
volunteers for all aspects of the event, including registration, greeting,
parking, rest stops, food service, traffic control and course logistics. The
event begins and ends at Rees Pioneer Park in Brigham City located at 800
W. Forest Street, 84302. Help is needed from 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and a
minimum shift of five hours is requested. Meals and a volunteer event t-shirt
will be provided. All volunteers must be at least 16 years old (unless
accompanied by a volunteering adult).

If you are
interested in volunteering, please contact me. We are still
in need of over 100 volunteers so please spread the word to your friends and
family! Feel free to contact me with any questions that you may
have. Thank you for supporting the American Diabetes Association and the Tour
de Cure!

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Utah Commission on Aging is
seeking members of ethnic and minority communities with an interest in bringing
Advance Health Care Planning to members of their respective
communities.

The Commission is offering a
training session for Advance Care Planning facilitators on June 11th
and 12th. Click Here for
the conference web site. The following support will be provided for up to 50
individuals:

·a full scholarship to the
training session

·lodging at the Snowbird Cliff
Lodge (one night for local students, up to three nights for students who live
more than 40 miles from Snowbird)

·mileage

·$100 as partial compensation
for their time

·Follow-up
support

Please forward this information
to any individuals who may have an interest in this opportunity. Interested
individuals should click
here to complete the following scholarship application, or call
801-587-9620.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

More than half of all
babies born last year were members of minority groups, the first time in U.S.
history. It's a sign of how swiftly the USA is becoming a nation of younger
minorities and older whites.

Hispanics, blacks, Asians
and other minorities in 2011 accounted for 50.4% of births, 49.7% of all
children under 5 and slightly more than half of the 4 million kids under 1, the
Census Bureau reports today.

In all, minorities had
5.9% fewer babies last year than in 2010, but births among non-Hispanic whites
fell even more, down 10.1%, Johnson says. A key reason: A greater share of the
minority population is of child-bearing age.

The new report offers a
broad picture of where and how the nation is changing. One telling sign: vast
differences in the median age — the mid-point of all ages — of racial and
ethnic groups. For Hispanics, the USA's largest minority group, the median age
is 27.6. For whites who are not Hispanic, it's 42.3. Blacks (30.9) and Asians
(33.2) are in between.

Other
findings:

The population of kids
under 18 shrank by a quarter million last year — the same amount as the over-85
population increased.

•Three more metro areas —
Columbus, Ga.; Dallas-Fort Worth; and Vineland-Millville, N.J. — joined a
growing list of places where a majority of residents are minorities.

•Nine counties, including
Cumberland, N.J., and Quitman, Ga., joined the 11% of the nation's 3,143
counties where at least half the residents are minorities.

•Washington, D.C., when
included with the 50 states, was the only place that has gotten younger since
2000, a result of young and educated people moving to the nation's capital.

•Maine, Vermont and New
Hampshire are the oldest and among the whitest states. Utah and Texas are the youngest states. Maine's median age has increased
by 4.6 years since 2000 to an oldest-in-the-country 43.2 years in 2011, Census
data show.

The growth of Hispanic
children, especially those about to enter kindergarten, poses a big challenge
in many states. Nationally, more than
three-fourths of the nation's teachers are non-Hispanic white and just 8% are
Hispanic, Census data show. The number of school-age
Hispanics grew more than 5 million since 2000 while non-Hispanic whites fell 3
million.USATODAY May 17, 2012

Health and Human Services (HHS)
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the launch of a new web-based tool
that will make it easier for all Americans to monitor and measure how the
nation’s health care system is performing. The Health System Measurement
Project, will allow policymakers, providers, and the public to develop
consistent data-driven views of changes in critical U.S. health system
indicators. Continue Reading →